Elder Matt Dalton: HELLO FAMILIA!!!

Hello everyone!!! Can I just say that I am such a blessed young man! I have the gnarliest sinus infection right now, but I don't even care because I'M ON A MISSION and I'm keeping a positive attitude! Having a positive attitude helps every aspect of life! I love being on a mission and being in the MTC. I know that I am in the place that I am supposed to be!

SO. Let me update all of you and tell you what has happened this week...

On Saturday and Sunday, we watched a broadcast of this thing called, General Conference. It was phenomenal. I LOVE being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! This gospel is so true and last weekend definitely was one of the best I have ever had! It is so fun watching it with a ton of missionaries! I had lots of favorite talks, and I felt like a majority of them were directed right towards me! Sunday night we had a devotional and the singing group, Vocal Point, was the guest. They sang a couple of songs and a couple of the singers bore their testimonies, it was a night to remember for sure! On Monday, during personal study, I was reading in Alma 54 and 55! It was starting to talk about the Stripling Warriors and it was making me so pumped! They had so much courage to go into that battle! I hope someday I can be like one of those studs! Later, after dinner, I only spoke Portuguese and it was so neat because I was speaking pretty good and I was starting to think in Portuguese! I feel like Monday was a huge step in the right direction, language-wise and spiritually. During personal time on tuesday, I read more about the Stripling Warriors. I seriously love the Book of Mormon SO much. I read Alma 56:48 and I instantly thought of you mom, thank you so much for your incredible example! We had a devotional on Tuesday night and Gerald Lund was the speaker.. He talked about revelation and I learned a ton! The gospel seriously makes so much sense! I truly do have a testimony of it's truthfulness. On Wednesday, I read more about the Stripling Warriors and it was so awesome! We also watched new missionaries come in! It definitely did not make me when I got dropped off. I can't believe that that was almost a month ago! Speaking of which, next Wednesday we get to host the new missionaries so that will be totally RADICAL. I'm stoked to give some missionaries a good first impression of being a missionary! I wanna be the type of host that mine was. I felt so welcomed to the MTC and I wanna be that type of missionary host! Yesterday, during language study, I memorized 66 verbs in Portuguese!!!! How about that? I give all the credit to my Heavenly Father and the Spirit for helping me out with learning the language so well! Irmao Rogers and another teacher did a teaching demonstration. I loved how they were smiling the whole time! I wanna be the type of missionary that is always smiling, regardless of how hard the mission gets! I love learning the Portuguese language, and I know that if I keep doing my best, I will eventually be fluent sometime down the road! I love this great gospel! I know that it is the only way to eternal happiness! I know that the Church of Jesus Christ is true. I also know for myself that the Book of Mormon is true. This week really helped strengthen my testimony of the Book of Mormon. I love all of you guys so much! I know that families can be together forever and I am so excited to spend eternity with all of you! Thank you so much for all of your examples! I love getting letters and emails from all of you! Oh and mom and dad, YOU TWO ARE THE BEST PARENTS IN THE WORLD. You are all in my prayers. Mom, anybody can email me, so you can let people know that! I love you all. Until we meet again, God be with you. Oh and remember that DEUS E OTIMO. Oh and I will probably get my reassignment in two weeks! I love you guys! I look forward to hearing from all of you this week! Thank you for all of your prayers! I can definitely feel them throughout the day! Eu te amo.

Elder Matt Dalton